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I received a regular android phone recently.

In my previous post, I mentioned that have a remote portal machine in my friend’s house where I use RustDesk to access into.

On the Hardware This post is originally wrote earlier this year, back then I bought an used HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini as a cheap NUC alternative.

After months of disappearing, I’m able to come back blogging, with A LOTS of drafts.

Welcome to the Shinobi Hackerspace.

Two month after flashing the Flint 2 GL-MT6000, I got its little brother GL-MT3000 in my hands as a powerful mini travel router runs stable build of OpenWrt.

This has been a problem for a while now.

Background with Kicksecure Last year, I set up my Monero Wallet with Kicksecure and happy about it.

This post was originally published on February 2025, and I recently updated the IPATool section in the end as a alternative method to prior ones. iPhone Talks There are a many cellphones that make me feel nostalgic.

After almost two years later, the hardware of my Openmediavault NAS is going to be upgraded from Vostro to Precision.

Background Last month, Cisco researchers detected over 1,000 Ollama instances within the first 10 minutes using Shodan scanning on 11434 port.

It has been a while since my WiFi is getting more and more unstable, and I finally decided to retire my NETGEAR R6300v2 which has served me well since in 2017.

During the prime day, my friend grabbed a GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000) for a fair price, thanks to the slickdeals community.

Contributing back to the community has been my duty consciously for years.

To boost my article visibility on the fractured internet, reposting to larger platforms is my strategy to grow and HackerNoon has been my choice for years.

As a book reader, I read over a hundred books each year and collect much more.

Recently, I downloaded an old documentary made in early 2000s.

Since I was a teenager, I have started voluntarily helping people around me with my skill of technology.

Recently, YouTube is messing with user disobedience again.

Recently, I started sending/receiving documents to/from untrusted sources.

Recently, I have encountered a very rare out-of-print book that I decided to save it for the world with modern technology.

Forewords This is the 3rd time updating the lists, where I added a section of Prompt Engineering upon requests since it is a good starting point for those not into self-hosting nor theory.

Forewords My last article on voice cloning is more than a year ago, and here we are again for adopting some latest advancement.

In the past, I have covered how to set up Ubuntu in WSL2 and hosting local LLMs with Harbor, now I want to migrate my Harbor instance from baremetal Linux into WSL2 so that I don’t have to set it up from scratch.

This post is originally composed on 2024-11-28.

There are many reasons why I’m doing this.

Last time, I mentioned Creating Ventoy VDI for Linux Live USB , however, it may not boot on some strange hardware and I unfortunately have quite a few of those.

This is the server I build back in 2023, based on a moded Dell Optiplex 3010 SFF motherboard with i5-2300 and Tesla M40.

Lately, there is a need of private chatbot service as a complete alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Days before mini-PC become a thing, there was no NUC, MinisForum or Beelink.

WSL Installation There are some special use cases where I would like to go through and show the process of setting up WSL.

The End of Timelessness?

Windows Nostalgia A recent video on Windows 7 as daily driver OS by Brodie Robertson was hilarious but also arguable.

Eventually, I found myself with enough leisure and motivation to set up a crypto wallet.

Recently I came down to want a mobile hotspot when going out of home, something like Netgear Nighthawk M series, but able to flash custom firmware (OpenWrt/pfSense equivalents) and cheap.

RustDesk is my favorite remote desktop tool which is the best alternative to any closed-source solutions, such as TeamViewer and Anydesk.

Recently, I encountered a scrolling problem on ChatGPT web like this.

the “Open Source AI Manifesto” Mark Zuckerberg has been hated by Richard Stallman for decades and he is the only person who appears on both cover image of the video essays: How the Internet was Stolen and How AI was Stolen by Then & Now.

AI-Generated content can be fun or “slop” according to Simon Willison, but also can be malevolent due to its abuse in phishing attacks.

2024 Update MrChromebox.tech had a major update a few month ago, so I decide to move on as well.

Last year, I bought a Metro locked Oneplus Nord N30 5G (CPH2513/CPH2515) for $60 during a very slick deal.

A Deep Dive into Voice Cloning with SoftVC VITS and Bert-VITS2 In the previous post, I have tried a little bit of TTS Generation WebUI and found it’s interesting.

Cheapskate’s NAS Migration from Unraid to Openmediavault For decades, I come across a lot of abandoned computers and recycled parts out of them.

Old Stories The computer hardware used to be more playful and worth tinkering.

Background Story Last week, I experienced a major data loss on my daily driver computer due to encryption failure.

I use Generate-subtitles as an alternative or substitute to YouTube closed captions (CC) since it does not always work as expected.

This is the text for a lecture I’m going to give recently.

No DALL-E, No Midjourney and No Colab This is a guide showing how to build your own stable diffusion server on what you already have or cheap used hardwares.

The latest news updated on waylaidwanderer’s repo says: 2023-02-15 The method we were using to access the ChatGPT raw models has been patched, unfortunately.

The Original Flavors In OpenAI’s documentation there are 4 models under GPT-3 category and 2 coding models.